The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

After dinner, the sun had already set outside. After carefully choosing the name for the little nephew, the family sat in the yard to enjoy the shade.

Lu Xiuyuan was lying on Lu Dafu's rocking chair, fanning the cattail fan leisurely, listening to his elder brother telling Xiaolian a bedtime story.

"Once upon a time there was a big mountain, and there was a small temple in the mountain. There was an old monk in the temple. The old monk was telling stories to the young monk. What kind of story was he telling? It was about a mountain in the past, and there was a temple in the mountain..."

After listening to it twice, Xiao Lian interrupted impatiently: "Father! I don't want to listen to this! You can change it! The monster in the sea I talked about before is very good, I want to listen to that."

"Didn't that father tell you seven or eight times, don't you get tired of listening?" His elder brother's voice was full of helplessness.

"Not tired, not tired! I want to listen!"

There was no way, his elder brother could only continue to tell the monster story that he had told many times.

The interaction between their father and daughter caused Lu Xiuyuan next to him to laugh gloatingly.

Perhaps Mrs. Zhang couldn't stand it anymore, and the topic came to him.

"Erlang, don't laugh, you will get married in half a month, are you ready?"

"What? More than half a month?!" Lu Xiuyuan sat up from the recliner all at once.

"Why so fast!"

Mrs. Zhang said disapprovingly: "Your previous three-media and six-employed have completed the first five, and now you are short of the last step to welcome the bride, and it has been less than half a year, how fast is that?"

Hearing this, Lu Xiuyuan couldn't help swallowing his saliva, it seemed a little sudden, but he had been looking forward to it for a long time, but he didn't expect that the ancient parents' order and matchmaker's words were so powerful, and the previous procedures were all done when they were not at home. It's enough to greet relatives and pay homage.

"What about the betrothal gift? What is the standard of our family?" Lu Xiuyuan asked.

Although their family is not very rich, the money that Yan Ruyu said later was sent directly to Zhang's side. The Shi family is so rich, they can't do too badly.

"Don't worry about it." Mrs. Zhang counted for him with her fingers: "The betrothal money is 20 taels, one hundred catties of betrothal cakes, six types of seafood, two pairs of male and female chickens, half a fan of pork, two carp, four Jingguo, four Colored sugar, tea box, gold box, incense gun bracelet, gold bucket, two meters..."

"According to the highest standard in our town, although the dowry is not as good as that of a big family, it is the greatest sincerity we can give."

After hearing Zhang's list, Lu Xiuyuan felt quite complicated. This dowry was considered very important to their family.

After saying this, Mrs. Zhang asked him to send out invitations ahead of time if he had any guests to invite, especially Doctor Xu. Pay attention to.

Chatting and chatting, they rested until five o'clock at night, and when the body began to feel cool, the family went back to their rooms to rest.

Early the next morning, the genius was slightly bright, and Lu Xiuyuan got up again to start exercising.

He is no longer just running like before. Since he finished the exam, he has started to organize some exercises to strengthen the waist and abdomen strength on a certain exercise software in his previous life, and practice them every day.

After doing exercises such as crunches, squats, planks, etc., his clothes were already soaked in sweat. Before his sister-in-law and the others got up in the morning, he quickly washed them with water.

Boom, boom, the door outside was knocked.

Unexpectedly, just after breakfast, someone was looking for him outside the yard. Mrs. Zhang walked out curiously, and found that it was a servant of Shifu.

"The young master sent us to help my uncle drive the carriage."

Lu Xiuyuan rinsed his mouth, saw that the servant looked familiar, and he was indeed from Shi Yunchen's side, so he nodded and told him to wait a moment.

Going back to the room, he put the invitation letter written in advance into his arms, bid farewell to Mrs. Zhang and the others, and he got into the carriage and set off for the town.

Pingan Town seems to be the same as it was a year ago. Even though the weather is hot outside, there are still people coming and going on the street. Everyone is living happily, with happy smiles on their lips.

The carriage drove at a fast speed and soon arrived at the Peace Hall. Lu Xiuyuan jumped out of the carriage, but was surprised to find that the door outside was locked and closed.

His master is not here?

Lu Xiuyuan looked around, and simply went to the grocery store on the right. The owner of the grocery store was quite familiar with them, so they might know something.

"Boss, please excuse me. Why is Ping'an Hall closed? Do you know where my master is?"

The other party was fiddling with the abacus, and when he heard Lu Xiuyuan's voice, he blinked, and finally said in surprise after confirming that it was the deity.

"Isn't this our Lu Zhuangyuan! The county magistrate said some time ago that he wanted to bring you back, why did you come back quietly now?"

... When the scenery is brought back, is this county magistrate marrying a wife?

He couldn't help but complain silently.

"I just came back yesterday afternoon, and I saw that the gate of the Ping'an Hall was locked. Does Boss Zhu know where my master is?"

Hearing Lu Xiuyuan repeating again, the boss finally reacted: "It's not like last year when the Yellow River was flooded. Doctor Xu took the medicine and left without coming back. He also said that if you come back, you will go to Zuolinfang to find shopkeeper Li." That's it."

Under the guidance of the other party, he went to shopkeeper Li again, and got the key and deed of the Ping'an Hall.

Lu Xiuyuan looked at the dozen house deeds in his hand, dumbfounded: "Isn't Master going to save people? Why don't you want the house? Don't you come back?"

Shopkeeper Li didn't reply, but silently handed over a letter.

After hurriedly opening it, he froze on the spot when he saw the contents inside.

The reason why his master left him all his belongings in Ping'an Town and then ran away was because he was worried that the letter of recommendation would reveal his whereabouts.

Well, when he was apprenticed to his teacher, he didn't mention Dr. Xu's whereabouts, he just said that he had no fixed place to live and left after teaching the technique.

Unexpectedly, even so, Dr. Xu still left.

Feeling unspeakably lost and sad in his heart, he still wanted to invite the other party home for a good two days when he got married.

Seeing that he was in a bad mood, shopkeeper Li next to him said cautiously: "Xiu Yuan, don't be too sad, there is a saying that you are destined to meet thousands of miles away, you two have a deep relationship between master and apprentice, and you will definitely meet again. "

Lu Xiuyuan smiled helplessly, and didn't bother to correct the mistakes in the other party's words: "Then shopkeeper Li, I will take my leave first, and I will trouble you today."

"No trouble, no trouble, it's the old shop after all." Shopkeeper Li waved his hand with a smile, and the other party continued to be the shopkeeper in another shop now.

After leaving Zuolinfang, he sat in the carriage and started to be in a daze.Master's departure disrupted many of his plans.

Originally planned to stay in the Ping'an Hall all day today to catch up with the other party and chat with the other party, but now the door of the Ping'an Hall is closed, and he doesn't know where to go for a while.

At this moment, the servant in front turned around and asked, "My lord, where are we going now?"

Lu Xiuyuan thought for a while, he refused to meet Ah Chen before they got married, so he could only mention the county magistrate who was going to meet tomorrow.

"Let's go to the county office first."

I met the county magistrate, who was a middle-aged man who could not read a single word, and by the way, saw the long-lost Lu Ming.

He doesn't care about his cheap uncle's family for a long time now, but Lu Ming is not a bad kid, so there is no need to take his anger on him.

After chatting with the county magistrate for a whole morning, and having a simple meal, and finally agreed to go to his house for a wedding in mid-June, Lu Xiuyuan left with the other party's escort.

June [-]th is suitable for marriage.

Early in the morning, before dawn in Jinshan Village, the whole village was already boiling.

This is a good day for the champion of their village to get married!I heard that the one who married was the richest brother in the town, the younger brother of the Shi family. Instigated by curiosity, everyone rushed to the Lu's house before dawn to watch the fun, and it didn't matter that they only went to greet the bride at dusk.

They heard that there was too much dowry at that time, and Lu Zhuangyuan's family hired people to work non-stop for more than ten days and built a new big yard.

But it was good for them to join in the fun. After Mrs. Zhang entertained those people with good wine and good food in the newly built yard, she smiled and asked them to go to Shi's house to help carry the dowry.

The ancient clans were like that, as long as one of them needs help, no matter how unpopular that branch is, someone will go there, not to mention Lu Xiuyuan and his current status of this clan is very different from what it used to be.

The young and strong men in the clan didn't need Mrs. Zhang to repeat it a second time, so they yelled and went to the town together.

About 50 of them, young and middle-aged, went there. They thought it was enough, but when they saw it at Shifu, everyone in the Lu family was dumbfounded.

"Why so much dowry?!"

The courtyard where Shi's family entered three times was now filled with all kinds of dowry sealed with red paper.

In addition to the traditional six large and seven small pieces, there were also several rows of large mahogany boxes in the yard, which had a great impact on everyone in the Lu family, and they couldn't recover for a long time.

In Jinshan Village, when they heard Mrs. Zhang say that there would be more than 50 people, they didn't take it seriously, but they didn't expect that 50 people would say that there were fewer!There are so many things, it’s almost a hundred!

Fortunately, the Shi family also knew that many people couldn't move things, so they also asked many people to help.

When the auspicious time came at noon, the group of them set off carrying their dowry.

Pedestrians and vendors on the streets of Ping'an Town were originally doing business normally, but they were shocked when they saw this long red dragon that could not see the end.

One of the women, with a basket of vegetables in her hand, wanted to go to the other side of the street to buy eggs, but bumped into the dowry-carrying line head-on and stopped to let the other party go first.

But what she didn't understand was that she had already stood here for a cup of tea, why the line hadn't finished yet? ?

Looking at the red dragon that was still moving, the woman couldn't help but exclaimed: "Which family is this marrying a girl? Why are there so many dowry!"

The stall owner next to her glanced at her with a smile: "Big sister, you must be out of date now. Today is the richest brother from the Shi family in our town who is getting married, and he is marrying the most promising number one scholar in our town! What do you think?" Do you think this dowry can be reduced?"

The woman who listened to the other party's words clicked her tongue: "This is too exaggerated, how rich is the family at this time."

When the dowry was carried to Jinshan Village, the dowry bearers had already rested several times on the road. Now that the sun was shining and they were carrying such a heavy thing, it was hard not to get tired and collapse.

After carrying it to the village with great painstaking efforts, these dowry bearers were once again watched by crowds.

Unlike most people in the town who were surprised and sighed silently in their hearts, the people in the village just said what was on their minds.

"This pattern is huanghuali, right? A babu bed of huanghuali! An arhat bed with three screens in rosewood! A couch for a beauty in rosewood! Desk, tea table, and Eight Immortals table! Chest chest with huanghuali top! Bookcase of nanmu..."

"At this time, the family is just marrying a brother! Why did you get so much dowry! This is too rich!"

Listening to the villagers continue to carry the dowry on their bodies and read out their names, no matter how tired they are, they carry it with great care. If they accidentally bump into each other, they will not be able to afford it if they sell themselves!

Under the envious gazes of all the villagers, all the dowries brought in were placed in the newly built courtyard for the man to see.

Lu Xiuyuan's family doesn't have many close relatives, but there are quite a few remote ones. They obviously didn't notify them of their marriage today, and those people came here uninvited with gift money.

His elder brother's mother-in-law was originally taking care of her little grandson in the old courtyard. After seeing the dowry bearer, she couldn't wait to hold the child and came up to watch.

Every time one was placed, the mother-in-law clicked twice, and Xiulan saw her mother standing closer, so she persuaded her to move back.

"Mother's side is a mess, you should hold the child and stay away."

Her mother took two steps back, and said sourly to Xiulan: "Originally, my mother was a little angry when she heard your uncle's dowry, but it was much more than when you got married, but today I saw the dowry of the young man at that time." , Mom has nothing to say now, I'm convinced!"

Xiulan smiled nonchalantly: "Then the family doesn't have any money, so the dowry is the biggest gift that can be given."

"Huh." The other party snorted coldly, "At this time, there are so many dowries in the family, and the betrothal gifts are insignificant. Will Mrs. Zhang regret that the betrothal gifts are less when seeing the dowry today?"

"Mother, don't say that, the dowry doesn't matter much, as long as you do your best with sincerity." Xiulan retorted.

As soon as the other party heard this, they started to attack again: "You damn girl, you always turn to your in-law's house every time, so the Zhang family is so good? You are so obsessed that you even forgot your own mother?!"

Seeing her mother like this again, Xiulan knew how wrong she was to say, so she simply took the child from the other party's arms and went to the back of the crowd.

Looking at the dowry that kept being brought in, she felt a little tangled in her heart.

My brother-in-law's husband's family is so rich, will he not be used to living and living when he marries into the Lu family?They will be regarded as sisters-in-law in the future, and they don't know if they can get along well.

The author has something to say: I can't finish writing the complete one today, so I might as well post half of it first.Thank you guys for your support!

Refer to Baidu for bride price and dowry